Browsing by Subject "Augustine"
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A "Trinitarian" Theology of Religions? An Augustinian Assessment of Several Recent Proposals
(2007-05-04)Contemporary theology is driven by a quest to make the doctrine of the Trinity “relevant” to a wide variety of concerns. Books and articles abound on the Trinity and personhood, the Trinity and ecclesiology, the Trinity ... -
A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder
(2008-12-10)The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on the ... -
Beyond Public and Private: A Theological Transfiguration
(2013)In this dissertation, I argue that the conceptual grammar of Augustine's thought provides a way of re-thinking the public/private distinction as it has been developed in modernity. The dissertation consists of two parts. ... -
Embodied Attention: Learning from the Wisdom of the Desert and Saint Augustine in an Age of Distraction
(2014)Throughout the life of the Church, certain habits have been cultivated to shape the identity of its community and deepen our communion with God. We see in the writings of the Desert Fathers that attentiveness is one habit ... -
Ethics in the Afterlife of Slavery: Race, Augustinian Politics, and the Enduring Problem of the Christian Master
(2019)This project rereads the political thought of Augustine of Hippo in the Black Lives Matter era. In the last two decades, scholars of religion and politics made a striking return to the constructive resources of the Augustinian ... -
Figural Reading in the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Dialogue with Augustine and Calvin
(2010)This exercise in constructive Christian theology presents the relation between the testaments as a critical problematic for the figural reading of the Old Testament. The project consists of two parts, the first focusing ... -
Makarios Now: Plundering Athens and Hippo
(2016)A Christian doctrine of happiness differs greatly from contemporary and pseudo-Christian conceptions of happiness, which are measured subjectively and by the accumulation of external goods. In order to develop a fresh account ... -
On the Love of God
(2015)AbstractThis dissertation queries the ongoing significance and fruitfulness of Augustine of Hippo's insight that the Holy Spirit is the Love of God. Rather than turning to the standard text, his De Trinitate, this project ... -
Reclaiming Self: An Augustinian Understanding of the Importance and Power of the imago Dei.
(2021)The following work explores identity from overlapping vantage points; biblical/theological, historical and practical to establish a robust understanding of identity in our present time. This thesis explores the ontological ... -
St. Thomas Aquinas on Disability & Profound Cognitive Impairment
(2012-05-07)St Thomas Aquinas on Disability and Profound Cogntive Imapirment (Abstract) This dissertation raises a question regarding the relationship between the condition of the body, moral virtue, and human flourishing. Our main ... -
The Wages of Sin: A Grammatical Theology of Death
(2020)This dissertation investigates the origins of death. It does so by drawing on Augustine of Hippo’s theology of creation, especially as expressed in his De Genesi ad litteram. It argues that recovering Augustine’s theory ... -
Truth to Power: The Politics of Theological Free Speech in the Cappadocian Fathers and Augustine of Hippo
(2018)This dissertation investigates the political grammars of truth-telling employed by two sets of early Christian authors, the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa), who wrote in ...
